Bug#875667: ITA: tclxml -- Tcl library for XML parsing
Hi,
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:09:32 +0200 Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> wrote:
> I am the Debian maintainer of saods9, the only reverse dependency of
> tclxml, and I intend to adopt the Debian package of tclxml.
Great!
> The upstream author of saods9 (William Joye, in cc, to get him informed)
> now also maintains (among the other requirements of saods9) tclxml:
>
> https://github.com/wjoye/tclxml
>
> Although the version number there is lower than the one in Debian, I
> would suspect that his package is more current, and therefore use this
> for a new version.
Hmm, from a first glance it doesn't seem so. Mostly the changes are
updates to tclconfig, and there's a change you probably should discuss
as I'm not sure it's not breaking the reverse dependencies (including
those outside Debian):
https://github.com/wjoye/tclxml/commit/d5e1189ddcc1c92df8c1d56011c3ca1f555e537c
> Other changes I am going to do:
>
> * put under team maintenance (Tcl/Tk team)
> * convert the packaging to git and git-buildpackage
> * update debian/files to latest standards (d/copyright & Co.)
That'd be good, thanks!
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Cheers,
Andrew
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